A team of doctors at Apollo Health City in Hyderabad have successfully performed three highly demanding and complex liver transplants and a kidney transplant, involving a mammoth endeavor of seven surgeries across two cities (Hyderabad and Vizag) in less than 40 hours.
With a success rate of 97 per cent, 4 terminally ill patients who were operated in October have now recovered fully. Dr. Hari Prasad, chief executive officer of central region, Apollo Hospitals and Dr. Manish C Varma, liver transplant surgeon from Apollo Health City, revealed about the medical fete.
The team of specialists involved in the marathon liver transplant surgeries included Dr. Anand Khakhar; Dr. Manish Varma; Dr. Anand Ramamurthy; Dr. Mahesh Gopasetty; Dr. K. Rajasekhar; Dr. Sanath Reddy; Dr. Dinesh Babu; Dr. Bipin Vibhute, Dr. Vasanth Roopan and Dr. Rajeev Sinha. The team of Dr. Somasekhar, consultant nephrologist; Dr. Subramanyam, consultant urologist and Dr. Sanath Reddy, consultant anaesthetist, performed the kidney transplant. Girish Shetty and Sandeep were the transplant coordinators.
Speaking on the occasion Dr Hari Prasad said, a commendable effort of this magnitude is rare in the annals of medical history and the liver transplant team led by Dr Manish Varma at the Apollo Health city, deserves kudos.
According to Dr. Manish Varma, Liver transplantation is one of the most complex and demanding organ transplantations, performing three such transplants involving six surgeries across two cities in less than two days time is nothing short of a miracle, but a combination of highly experienced liver transplant specialists, world-class infrastructure and professional support team at the Apollo Health City, made this possible.
The patients who underwent liver transplantation include, Ketan Ramesh Patel 44 years from Gujarat, Mahendra Kumar Kar 47 year old based in USA, Dynandev Warule, 52 year old from Maharashtra. All the three were critically ill and were desperately awaiting liver transplants.
The kidney transplant was performed on Kareemullah Khan aged 43 year is a software engineer. He is a known patient of diabetes and hypertension for the past eight years and was on dialysis for the last three years. He is now off dialysis and will join work and lead a normal life in two months time. Apollo Health City, Hyderabad on an average does 100 kidney transplants a year with a success rate of more than 95 per cent.